Friends of Grassy Narrows

On Monday April 28th, 2008 Indigenous Warriors on Coast Salish Territory blocked a vital intersection used for commercial shipping to the United States. The action was done in solidarity with the Tyendinaga Mohawk community. Five Warriors from Tyendinaga had been arrested and attacked by the OPP days before. SWAT teams and paramilitary units were on Tyendinaga Territory surrounding dozens of other unarmed Warriors who were peacefully occupying a rock quarry claimed to be on their territory.

On the night of May 7, 2008 we set fire to a Kiewitt & Sons work truck. Peter Kiewitt & Sons is currently working on expanding the Sea to Sky highway between Vancouver and Whistler, the main artery for the Olympics, also paving the way for investment into land exploitation, tourism and development. This is not the first act of resistance to PK+S and hopefully not the last; in 2007 people occupied eagle ridge bluffs to prevent its destruction by the Sea to Sky highway. PK+S filed an injunction causing the arrest of camp occupants and the imprisonment of Squamish elder and warrior Harriet Nahanne who died shortly after suffering illness in prison.

PK+S constructs the spaces that house many institutions of physical as well as social control including; air force and navy operations centers, mines, dams, highways, and industrial nuclear experimentation facilities. This act, for us, was an attack against repression and those who construct its systems.

Anonymous

The youth of Grassy Narrows are walking to Queen's Park to bring the message of autonomy from Ontario's Northwest.

Last night, a group of settlers blockaded Highway 6 at Paisley Road in Guelph, Ontario. Our blockade consisted of a flaming barricade, construction pylons, and about 20 people. This blockade was erected to oppose and draw attention too the continued OPP siege in Tyendinaga and the continued state repression of not only indigenous communities, but all of us. We chose Highway 6 because it is the same road being blockaded by members of Six Nations, also in solidarity with Tyendinaga. These blockades are spreading and will continue to spread with growing momentum until all stolen land is returned.

It only takes a few people and last night we demonstrated that. We hope this can be a model for other communities and encourage you to respond locally. As the Railway Ties Collective said in May of 2007, "Real solidarity means shouldering some of the burden of struggle." Return all stolen land. Free all political prisoners. Abolish all hierarchies.

anonymous

Yesterday, April 28, 2008, about a hundred Natives and non-Native supporters marched along and blocked-off a major trucking route in East Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory, for several hours starting at about 3:00 PM, in solidarity with the struggle at Tyendinaga and Six Nations. The march was lead by elders and stopped for drumming and singing at a few major intersections, causing massive traffic jams.

In the early morning of friday april 25th 3 Bell vans had their tires (12 of them) slashed.
We hope to express our solidarity with those fighting the implementation of capitalist expansion everywhere. From Tyendinaga to the occupied territories out west. The 2010 olympics (and SPP, both of which Bell sustains) is a symptom of capitalism and it spreads development, militaristic security and a tupperware disneyland of wealth for the rich atop the lives and lands of the poor and dispossessed it swallows.
Let's deepen our resistance to the 2010 SPP meeting, G8 and Olympics through local struggles and wherever their repressive structures and technology is implemented and developed!

The convergence includes anarchists, aboriginal “warrior” groups, poverty activists, housing activists, anti-capitalists, anti-globalization activists, student activists, and others who are just interested in anti-social behavior.

April 11, 2008
John Burman
The Hamilton Spectator
BUFFALO (Apr 11, 2008)

A Six Nations man who has already done Canadian jail time for stealing a United States Border Patrol vehicle at the height of the violent times in the Caledonia land dispute two years ago now faces similar charges on the American side of the border.

Trevor Miller, 32, was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents as he crossed the Canada-U.S. border in Minnesota with his wife early last week.

The morning of Thursday April 10th, a black bloc was called together to "shut down" CANSEC (secrity and weapons fair) and
attack the system it expands. From the begining of the demonstration an overwhelming police presence was mobilized to
intimidate our small bloc.
This repression characterizes the continuing crackdown on subversion taking place accross "Canada." Allies everywhere are
facing exagerated sentences for blockades (at Tyendinaga), land reclamations (at Six Nations), or even for the fabrications
alleged by our exploiters (in the case against John "boy" Graham).
Here in "Ottawa" it was no different, they kidnapped one comrade after our bloc smashed up a military recruiting centre.
Odds against us, greatly outnumbered and repressed, our determined bloc moved on.

Because of this obscene repression and because of the courage of our comrades we chose to act.
Let them never get away with this!!
While many moved to the jail holding our fellow companion in a show of solidarity, tonight we take up arms to express ours!

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